The Architecture of the City

Architects: Kadawittfeldarchitektur
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Architect In Charge: Dirk zweering
Area: 41,550 sqm
Photographs: Angelo Kaunat, Gerhard Hagen, Andreas Körner

Architects: ALA Architects
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Team: Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta and Samuli Woolston with Aleksi Niemeläinen, Jussi Vuori, Erica Österlund and Martin Genet, Vladimir Ilic, Tiina Juuti, Julius Kekoni, Pekka Sivula, Jyri Tartia
Mechanical Engineering: Arup / Paul Dunne, Susan Cormican, Luke Stewart, Mona Holtkoetter
Structural Engineering: Arup / Rory McGowan, Aidan Madden, Colm Morrin
Facade Engineering: Arup / Anthony McCauley
Technical Specialist: Arup / Paul Dunne
Scale Model: Stoltmodels / Klaus Stolt
Client: City of Helsinki
Status: In progress
Type: Competition, 1st Prize
Area: 16,000 m2
Visualizations: Vizarch.Cz / Petra Grísová, Josef Veselý, Vratislav Zíka
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of ALA Architects

As demonstrations erupted in Brasília, Rio, and São Paulo, Niemeyer's architecture provided the revolutionary backdrop for one massive protest.

In the largest battle of the Spanish Civil War, Nationalists and Republicans fought for more than five months near the town of Corbera d’Ebre. Besides the death of thousands of soldiers on either side, the Battle of the Ebro resulted in the destruction of the town. In the aftermath, it was decided to keep the church atop the hill in its ruined state to serve as a memorial.

In order to better preserve this monument, architect Ferran Vizoso (along with Núria Bordas, Jordi Garriga, and David Garcia) was enlisted to design a canopy for the site. The new canopy protects inhabitants, as well as the church’s masonry, from wind and rain while also moderating temperature. The resulting space is thus between interior and exterior, old and new.

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (m. 1967).  

The petition is partly an effort to combat the field’s chronic misogyny. In a recent interview inArchitect magazine, Brown described decades of pinprick humiliations: clients who ignored her and talked only to Venturi, get-togethers at all-male clubs, a request to step away from a group of architects that was posing for a photograph, accusations that she was resentful, shrewish, and demanding. Today a less-candid sexism comes out in the numbers: Women make up about half of all architecture students but only 17 percent of practicing architects. Zaha Hadid remains the only woman to win the Pritzker on her own. And although Kazuyo Sejima, the female co-founder of Sanaa, did win along with her younger (male) partner Ryue Nishizawa in 2010, the next year’s prize once again went to the male half of a two-person partnership: the Chinese architect Wang Shu, but not his wife, Lu Wenyu. (Women are reaping other laurels, though: the first $100,000 Wheelwright Prize has just been awarded to the 35-year-old Brooklyn architect Gia Wolff.)

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Les concours d'architecture ont fait de la France un eldorado pour les cabinets étrangers. La création hexagonale s'en trouve pénalisée sur son propre terrain, alors même qu'elle peine à s'exporter.

A new exhibition of Le Corbusier’s work at the Museum of Modern Art tackles the meshing of his buildings with landscape.

Architects: Berg | C.F. Møller Architects
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Collaborating Architects: DinellJohansson
Urban Planning Consultants: Tyréns
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Berg | C.F. Møller Architects

In order to illustrate how the ingenuity and innovation of contemporary architecture is enabling scientists to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on our planet, the British Council has commissioned curators from the Arts Catalyst to launch a new international touring exhibition titled Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica.

The first exhibition of its kind, Ice Lab will include architectural drawings, models, photographs, and films allowing for visitors to not only examine the architecture, but the life of these scientists in these research facilities. Sources of inspiration for the projects including original drawings from Archigram’s ‘Walking City’ will be on display alongside a new commissioned light and audio work by international visual artist Torsten Laushmann. The Glasgow-based artist will create this work in collaboration with ‘We Made That’, the exhibition’s designers.

Desde que partimos haciendo Plataforma Arquitectura y ArchDaily hemos entrevistado cerca de 200 arquitectos con el objetivo de entender la diversidad de nuestro oficio y para además entregarles una visión más cercana de el trabajo al interior de las oficinas más reconocidas alrededor del mundo.

Aquí encontrarán una serie de consejos entregados por algunos de nuestros entrevistados, enfocándose en dar consejos para los jóvenes arquitectos.

Podrás ver a Bjarke Ingels, Charles Renfro, Einard Jarmund, Ma Yansong, San Jacob, Kim Eyre y Andrew Maynard compartiendo sus consejos con nuestra comunidad.

Waterside cafe at the Kontum Indochine Hotel in Vietnam designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects and filled with conical bamboo columns.

This article, by David Brussat of The Providence Journal’s editorial board, first appeared at providencejournal.com. In a rating of energy efficiency by the Environmental Protection Administration, New York’s venerable Chrysler Building scored 84 out of 100 points; the Empire State Building, 80; but the modernist 7 World Trade Center scored 74 (below the cutoff of 75 for “high efficiency”); the Pan Am Building, 39; Lever House, 20; the Seagram Building, 3. 

The New York Times reported this story last Dec. 24 under the headline "City's Law Tracking Energy Use Yields Some Surprises."

It was no surprise to Nikos Salingaros and Michael Mehaffy, who have investigated why modern architecture thrives despite its inability to live up to any of its longstanding promises -- aesthetic, social or utilitarian.

Site officiel de la revue internationale d'architecture 'LE CARRÉ BLEU'

Des architectes de réputation mondiale ont collaboré à la revue et beaucoup de projets initialement décrits dans 'Le Carré Bleu' ont été réalisés par la suite. Par exemple:

université libre de Berlin (équipe Candilis Josic Woods)cité universitaire d'Urbino en Italie (Giancarlo de Carlo)centre linéaire de Rotterdam (J.B. Bakema)

Les contributions variées au 'Carré Bleu' peuvent étre regroupées sommairement en trois catégories:

accent sur la forme architecturaleaccent sur la fonction (sociale)accent sur la structure constructive

Ayant un long passé de militant politique, je compte parmi les élus et responsables politiques beaucoup de proches et d’amis. Sur les réseaux sociaux (Facebook ou Twitter), je les vois se féliciter à longueur de temps de constructions dont ils sont les instigateurs, les maîtres d’ouvrage, les partenaires ou un peu moins de tout ça. A chaque fois ou presque, je me sens obligé de leur rappeler de citer l’équipe de maîtrise d’oeuvre et plus précisément le nom de l’architecte de l’opération. Peu d’entre eux me répondent car peu d’entre eux connaissent le nom du ou des concepteurs. Cette situation peu flatteuse ne fait que souligner un manque d’amour et de reconnaissance que la France a pour ses architectes.

Architects: GEO Arquitectos
Location: Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
Architects In Charge: Álvaro Galmés, Arturo Grinda, Miguel Olazábal
Area: 2,570 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán